One of the biggest gardening gambles in the Antelope Valley is when to plant tomatoes and peppers outside without extra protection. This last week has been hot, and a few weeks ago I wrote that the ...

Staking your tomato plants has plenty of benefits, including a better harvest.

That’s where NatureSweet shines by adding a little color to snack plates with its tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Fair Trade and B Corp-certified, the produce company is widely recognized for meeting ...

A few years ago, Mark Williams, an OSU Master Gardener Volunteer, presented information on heirloom tomatoes for fellow ...

East Texans love their tomatoes. We talk about them, brag about them, and sometimes mourn them when heat or spider mites shut ...

What makes a tomato the “best?” For most of us, taste is the top criteria. Taste, of course, is hard to describe, but ...

I used to preserve my "fancy candles" for a special occasion or guests, but as I've realized how scent can transform my space and my mood, I love filling my home with candles. The right scent can make ...

Walk into any serious restaurant kitchen in peak summer and you will almost certainly find a crate of misshapen, multicolored ...

Early mornings take on a different energy when tents rise, crates open, and the air fills with the scent of ripe fruit and fresh herbs. There’s a rhythm to it – shoppers wandering slowly, farmers ...

KNOXVILLE - The tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, which translates to comforting wolf peach, has a rather recent recorded history starting in the 1500s. Wild tomatoes were from western South America, ...

Tomato production in the Dakotas is about to change. There is a new wave of tomato varieties that will provide more colors, better flavors and higher yields. Scientists have cracked the genetic code ...

SUMMER'S START? We don't need to guess when the sunbeamiest season officially commences: Look to the solstice for things to lushly rev up in the "longest day of the year" department. But summer finds ...